Comments on: Beeline to Extinction

By: pete veilleux

pete veilleux — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 05:44:00 +0000

good article. important subject. however, none of the plant species you mention are native to california and there are very real benefits in using native plants and promoting the health of the thousands of native bee species, rather than the non-native european honeybee – which is such a good symbol of the unsustainability of monocropping.

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By: Greenest Stuff Ottawa

Greenest Stuff Ottawa — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 22:37:34 +0000

It’s my understanding that honey bees are not native to North America and that they crowd out native bee species.

Check this website out:

http://www.vegetus.org/honey/ecology.htm

There are nearly 20,000 known species of bees – it’s frustrating that we only talk about the honey bee as if it’s the only pollinator out there!

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 19:22:01 +0000

Sad but important article. I just linked to it in my Friday News Bites on http://www.9weightloss.com. A world without bees sounds frightening.

By: Farrah Johnson

Farrah Johnson — Mon, 31 May 2010 15:16:25 +0000

Something else to consider, that I did not see in this article, is all the herbicides in use. You cannot cover flowers with chemicals and not think it will affect bees. From the round up ready gmo crops to the dandelions people spray in their yards, bees are coming into contact with these chemicals all the time.

By: Jen Dalton

Jen Dalton — Thu, 27 May 2010 22:46:57 +0000

Naomi,

Have you heard anything, or read any studies, about the influence cell phones have on CCD?

By: Marghanita Hughes

Marghanita Hughes — Wed, 26 May 2010 23:55:42 +0000

Great post Naomi.Such an important issue.
I created a FREE coloring booklet for kids to help raise awareness for our pollinators-in particular the Honey Bee:http://www.littlehumbugs.com/pollinators_booklet
Please share, thanks.

By: Jen Dalton

Jen Dalton — Wed, 26 May 2010 16:22:33 +0000

Great report Naomi!

An added resource for bee-it-yourselfers. You can join The Great Sunflower Project. You get free seeds and participate in counting bees in your garden. Details are here: http://www.greatsunflower.org/

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Beeline to Extinction « Chrisy58′s Weblog — Wed, 26 May 2010 15:34:38 +0000

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By: Terry

Terry — Wed, 26 May 2010 09:41:02 +0000

I was at a bee seminar last year and one thing they spoke about that was not listed in this post I found very interesting – that commercial bee keepers have bred their bees to be larger over the past few decades. The bee keepers were discussing that they bees are simply larger then nature can support them, and they are far more prone to infection as a result. There is an effort to breed down the bees in commercial colonies.

They also discussed that organic colonies are not seeing an affect because they have not tampered with their sizes.

It seems this post has some similar basic facts to support this – I would love to see this discussed in more detail.